![]() The latest funding put the Ho Chi Minh City-based manufacturer’s total raised capital at $16.5 million since establishment in 2019.ĭat Bike plans to use the new investment to develop, upgrade technology and products, recruit more sales, customer care and R&D personnel to handle rapidly growing orders, at the same time investing in expanding its factory's production scale. View source version on businesswire.Vietnamese start-up Dat Bike has raised $8 million led by Jungle Ventures with participation from GSR Ventures, Delivery Hero Ventures, Wavemaker Partners and Innoven Capital, the electric motorcycle maker said Thursday. Notable investments include AvidXchange, Betterfly, Bitso, Caribou, ClearScore, Current, Creditas, Credit Karma, Flywire, Kavak, Klarna, Konfio, Loft, Mission Lane, Nubank, QuintoAndar, Remitly, SoFi, Wagestream and Wayflyer. QED Investors is dedicated to building great businesses and uses a unique, hands-on approach that leverages its partners’ decades of entrepreneurial and operational experience, helping companies achieve breakthrough growth. Founded by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman in 2007, QED Investors is focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies worldwide. QED Investors is a global leading venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Va. in international relations and economics from New York University.įounded in 2007, QED Investors has invested in more than 200 companies, including 28 unicorns, and has $4.3 billion under management. Melissa graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. Before transitioning to VC, she founded and led the regional marketing, partnerships team at Shopee, Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce firm. Melissa started her career at Singapore Airlines where she gained operational experience across product innovation and management, corporate strategy, as well as fuel procurement and hedging. She was responsible for the Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh markets, plus the primary verticals of SaaS, B2B marketplaces, proptech, edtech, commerce and consumer internet. Previously, Melissa led the investment team at Wavemaker Partners, one of Southeast Asia's leading seed VC funds investing in enterprise, deep tech and sustainability companies. ![]() Her diverse breadth of experiences and depth with the Singapore and Southeast Asia ecosystem will be brilliant additions to QED as we advance to help founders at the earliest stage of their journeys and build our on-ground presence in Asia.” ![]() “She is a driven and energetic investor and a determined and intentional partner. “Mel is passionate about working closely with the companies she invests in and has a sense of humility and realism which takes her a long way there,” said QED Investors Partner and Head of Asia, Sandeep Patil. Melissa joins QED as a principal focusing on fintech investments across multiple stages in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on early stage companies. QED Investors, a leading global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, today announced the hire of Melissa Ho. Melissa will focus on investing in early stage fintechs across Southeast Asia
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